Max Porter: Lanny
Max Porter’s Lanny was recently longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. Here is Paul’s review.
2010s
Sarah Moss: Ghost Wall
Dorian, in his first piece for The Mookse and the Gripes, takes a deep look at Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall.
Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies
Paul reviews this year’s winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth.
Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman
Paul reviews Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori and recently longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.
Sjón: CoDex 1962
Paul reviews Sjón’s CoDex 1962, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. This novel was recently placed on this year’s Best Translated Book Award longlist.
Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Machines Like Me, is an alternative history of the 1980s. There’s a lot to recommend it, but in the end I don’t.
Ian McEwan: Nutshell
In anticipation of Ian McEwan’s forthcoming Machines Like Me, I look at his 2016 Nutshell, a book with a premise that once put me off but which, it turns out, I loved.
Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive
Paul reviews Valeria Luiselli’s 2019 novel Lost Children Archive, recently longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez: The Shape of the Ruins
Paul review’s Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Shape of the Ruins, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. This book was recently longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
Daniel James: The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas
Paul reviews The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas, by — perhaps — Daniel James.